Author Topic: World Cup: well done NZ!  (Read 652 times)

Offline 68Wooley

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Re: World Cup: well done NZ!
« Reply #15 on: June 21, 2010, 03:32:16 PM »
Diving...are you telling me that we are the ONLY ONE doing it? I hope not.

Absolutely not, but I do wonder where the other teams originally got the idea from?

As for New Zealand playing backs to walls football, there's a huge difference between playing that way because you're being pinned back by the other team and actually setting out to play that way. New Zealand were given no choice but to play that way. Italy deliberately make a strategy of it.

Offline xxIENAxx

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Re: World Cup: well done NZ!
« Reply #16 on: June 21, 2010, 04:03:40 PM »
Absolutely not, but I do wonder where the other teams originally got the idea from?
Come on, try to be serious. Or maybe you will tell that you were there when the first player took a dive.But that is not my point, my point is every one does it but funny enough i ALLWAYS hear only about the Italians. Could it be that is easier to point the finger allways at us?


As for New Zealand playing backs to walls football, there's a huge difference between playing that way because you're being pinned back by the other team and actually setting out to play that way. New Zealand were given no choice but to play that way. Italy deliberately make a strategy of it.
Wrong,from the 1st minut of the second half, they just defended their goal and used the few counterattacks they had. It was clear from the way the players just runned back to their half of the field. They didn't try anything else not cause they couldn't just cause they were happy with the score as it was, same way as Italy is happy when they lead the match.But then again it was not Italy doing it so i guess it was ok.

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